St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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20th June 1757 - 5th October 1763

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Elizabeth Dixon< no role > aged upwards of 22 Years
upon Oath says she never was Married nor Ever Rented
Ten Pounds by the Year nor was an Apprentice or
Yearly Servant and that her father Robt. Dixon< no role >
Rented a house in the Parish of Old Elvet in the
Bishoprick of Durham of the Yearly Rent of Ten
Pounds and upwards for sevl. Years and further
upon her Voluntary Oath says that on the 19th.
day of January 1759 she was delivered of a Male
Bastard Child in the house of Mrs. Gilken not in
the Strand in the Parish of St. Clement Danes in the County
of Middx. which has since been baptized by the Name
of William Dixon Thong< no role > and is still living and [..] likely
to become chargeable to the said Parish and that
one Willm. Thong< no role > This name instance is in set 2066. -an Attorney at Law who lives at
the Whitehouse in Leicester fields did beget the said
Child on her Body he having had Carnal Knowledge
of her Body sometime in the Month of April 1758
at sevl. times afterwards at one of which times he
got her with Child of the Male Bastard Child of which
she was delivered as aforesaid and that the said
Wm. Thong< no role > and no other Person is the true & real
father thereof

Sworn Novr. 1st. 1760
before} Fran: Bedwell< no role >

Elizabeth Dixon< no role >

Upon Mr Barbers
Complt. J: P:




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